Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for Linux

Settings for KVM

If you install HDLM in an environment in which KVM is used, you need to

qemu/domain-name.xml). For details on the hardware configuration file, see

the OS documentation.

To register HDLM devices by using the virsh command:

1. Execute the following command to check the domain name and operating

status of the guest OS.

# virsh list --all

Id Name State

----------------------------------

domK running

The underlined part indicates the domain name.

2. If the guest OS is running, stop it.

For details on how to stop the guest OS, see the OS documentation.

3. To register a new HDLM device, register the HDLM device into the

hardware configuration file.

The following example shows how to register the HDLM device (/dev/

sddlmac) as the IDE device (/dev/hdb) into the guest OS:

</disk>

For details on the values that can be specified for disk type, target

dev, and target bus, see the OS documentation.

4. To migrate an environment that uses a SCSI device to an environment

that uses an HDLM device, change the SCSI device registered in the

hardware configuration file to an HDLM device.

The following example shows how to edit the hardware configuration file

when migrating the SCSI device (/dev/sda) to the HDLM device (/dev/

sddlmad):

Before:

After:

For details on which SCSI devices correspond to which HDLM devices, see

Displaying Corresponding Information About an HDLM Device, SCSI

Device, and LDEV on page 4-38.

5. Execute the following command to enable the settings in the hardware

configuration file.

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